Bottle-washing apparatus.



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BOTTLE WASHING APPARATUS.

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BOTTLE WASHING APPARATUS.

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CHRISTOPH GROTERJAN, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

BOTTLE-WASHING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,378, dated December 19, 18919.. Application led June 7, 1898. Serial No. 682,821. (No model.)

T0 all wiz/0m, it may concern:

Be it known that LGHRIsToPH GROTERJ AN, of Berlin,Germany,"have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Washing Apparatus; and Ideclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an apparatus for cleansing bottles having a considerably-increased output and effecting a very considerable saving in working expenses as against the bottle-washing apparatus hitherto employed. In addition to the practical general arrangement of the apparatus this is mainly attained by the brushes employed as the means for cleaning the interior 0f the bottles, being adapted to utilize directly the propulsive power of steam issuing from a nozzle and the same steam being directly utilized for warming the washing-Water.

An apparatus for bottle-washing arranged according to this invention is shown Ln the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure lis a vertical longitudinalsection of the whole apparatus; Fig. 2, a plan View of same 5 and Figs. 3 and i, vertical and horizontal sections, respectively, of the motor operated directly by steam, with the axle of which motor two brushes are directly connected.

, t'The apparatus consists of the dipping-tank a, which is iilled with Water up to a certain height and in which the bottles are first placed for a certain time in order 'that the impurities adhering thereto may be softened and also partially removed. On the upper edge of the longitudinal walls of this tank bars or rails a are fixed, and on these a drip or drain frame l?, mounted on four wheels b', is movably arranged. The bottles, with their necks downward, are inserted in the holes of this frame,and after the bottles have been drained the draining-frame l), together with the bottles, is pushed to the right-hand end of the rails a. The bottles then come into a comparatively shallow tank or vessel c, arranged at this end, where they are again partially filled with water. Above the tank o a brushing apparatus d is mounted in abracket-like support or carrier o. This brushing apparatus consists of a wheelf, revolubly mounted in acasing c, the rim g of said Wheel being made comparatively heavy in order that the Wheel may have a considerable momentum. The Wheel has a groove 7L running all around it, which is provided with vanes by means of radial bars t. A brush Zis connected with each end of the axle of the wheel f, which axle projects through the casing @at each end, the connection being eliected by means of a socket 7o. A nozzle m opens into the casing @which nozzle is connected with any suitable steamsupply-such, for instance, as a steam-boiler or a steam-supply pipe. The nozzle is so arranged that the steam emerges therefrom with the expansive force of the vane t, situated immediately below it. By the force of the steam the wheelfand also the two brushes Z are set in rotation, which, owing to the circumstance that each successive vane i receives an impulse, very soon produces an extremely-rapid revolution of the wheel f with the brushes Z. The steam flowing into each separate compartment of the rim of the wheel is on the rotation of the wheel of course carried with it. The lower part of the casing e. is widened out or expanded in such .a way that a free spacca results, in which the steam ssY carried along in the compartments of the 8o Wheel-rim is ejected by centrifugal force. A pipe o runs downward from this space n, and the lower end of said pipe dips in the water of the tank c. A second pipep, also running from the space n, opens into the Water of the tank a. As the tanks a and c at first and also later on (on the renewal of the water) are always again filled with cold water a powerful condensation of course takes place of the steam passing from the chambery??l into the pipes o and p, and in consequence of this condensation there very soon takes place in the Water contained in the said two tanks such a heating as is necessary for the rapid softening and washing out of the impurities contained :in and on the bottles. A workman stands at each side of the tank Gand removes the bottles from the tank and places them over the rapidly-rotating brushes Z, arranged at each side, so that the interior'of the bottles is thoroughly cleansed. The workman places the brushed-out bottles, which still contain some water, into a second drip-trarne g adjoining him, from which the bottles may cured to the shaft of the wheel, a easing snr= rounding the motor-wheel, havinga widened chamber part, a steam-inlet pipe to admit steam to the motor-wheel and pipes connected to the widened chamber part of the easing to deliver the steam to the washing-tanks thereby heating the water and revolving the brushes from the same steam-supply, as sei forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHRISTOPH GROTERJAN.

Witnesses:

C. H. DAY, EMIL T. HOFFMANN. 

